afraid - Story 562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *sure* you're okay with this, Maya?" Clara’s voice was laced with concern as she stood outside Maya's bedroom door. Inside, Maya paced, the flimsy floral dress she’d picked out for her own birthday party clutched in her hands.

“Of course," Maya said, her voice sounding tight. She couldn't meet Clara’s gaze. The idea of competing with Ethan’s pool party, a party she hadn’t even been invited to, twisted a knot in her gut.

The mirror revealed a pale, pinched face. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. Every time she reached for her phone to call everyone again, to beg them to come, her fingers froze in mid-air. She didn't want to seem needy. But the thought of an empty house filled her with a terrible dread.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.316
`마다`	0.314
`worse`	0.313
`😰`	0.303
`恐惧`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.691
`la`	-0.562
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.316
`brag`	-0.293